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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Itinerarium	Sir John Mandeville	227, [1] p. : 22 cm	OL1130830W
Peintures et initiales de la première [et seconde] Bible de Charles le Chauve	Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des manuscrits.	Title translated is "Paintings and initials from the First (and Second) Bible of Charles the Bald."	OL11598469W
The Saint John's Bible	Jackson, Donald	"A full-color reproduction of the handwritten and illuminated work, The Saint John's Bible, in seven volumes"--Provided by publisher.	OL16667601W
The benedictional of St Æthelwold	Andrew Prescott	Full-color facsim. of the 10th-century ms. benedictional of Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester (British Library Add. MS 49598)	OL19161443W
Book of Kells and the Art of Illumination	Brian Kennedy	80 p. : 30 cm	OL21219801W
Writing & illuminating, & lettering	Edward Johnston	The crafts of writing, illuminating and lettering offer a wide field for the ingenious and careful craftsman and open the way to a variety of rewarding occupations apart from their very great educati…	OL2200371W
Script as image	Jeffrey F. Hamburger	In the Middle Ages, writing conveyed far more than information. In contradistinction to the modern separation of image and text and, by implication, form and content, which was reified with the inven…	OL22329301W
The Ancient Books of Ireland	Michael Slavin	x, 198 p. : 25 cm	OL2296278W
The illuminated soul	Aryeh Lev Stollman	"Drawing on such diverse sources as the anatomy of the vertebrate brain, the Bible and Jewish legends, Japanese pictography and literature, and the ancient languages of the Near East, The Illuminated…	OL2617404W
Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y islas de Tierra Firme	Diego Durán	"Beautiful presentation of the illustrations from Durán's well-known work. Editor's introduction presents a brief physical description of the illustrations, as well as a biography of Durán and his …	OL2816894W
Athanasius Kircher's theatre of the world	Joscelyn Godwin	n the 17th century Athanasius Kircher was a phenomenon. In the 21st he has become a cult. He had an extraordinary imagination, comparable to the most avant-garde modern artist, even (or often especia…	OL2946067W
Early Spanish manuscript illumination	Williams, John	Spanish culture is the result of many civilizations -- Visigoth, Jewish, Berber, Arabic -- which mingled with the traditions of the Romanized Celtic-Iberian population, once colonized by Carthage. Of…	OL3057486W
Dreams of subversion in medieval Jewish art & literature	Marc Michael Epstein	Europe's Jewish minority culture was subjected to a barrage of public images proclaiming the dominance of the Christian majority. This book is the first to explore the Jewish response to this assault…	OL3257423W
The Uta Codex	Adam S. Cohen	276 p. : 29 cm	OL475743W
The St. Albans Psalter: An Anglo-Norman Song of Faith (Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politi…	Kristine Edmondson Haney	"The St. Albans Psalter (c. 1125-1135), is generally regarded as the earliest surviving masterpiece of Anglo-Norman painting. Its extensive picture cycle includes over 200 historiated initials accomp…	OL5002299W
Marguerite makes a book	Bruce Robertson,Robertson, Bruce	In medieval Paris, Marguerite helps her nearly blind father finish painting an illuminated manuscript for his patron, Lady Isabelle.	OL508477W
The illuminator	Brenda Rickman Vantrease	It is England, in the late fourteenth century, a time when the old feudal order is starting to crack, but the whim of a lord or the pleasure of a bishop still has the power to seal nearly anyone&#821…	OL5723532W
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves	John Plummer	"When this volume first appeared in 1966, it was celebrated for its extraordinary beauty. Now, more than thirty-five years since its first publication, it is made available once again. Illustrating o…	OL5917431W
Book of common prayer	Church of England,J. A. Maurault	Book of rites and prayers for use during worship. Includes Holy Communion and Evening Prayer, weddings (Holy Matrimony), Holy Baptism, funerals, ordinations of deacons, priests and bishops, dedicatio…	OL769120W
Saints in Medieval Manuscripts	Greg Buzwell	64 p. : 25 cm	OL9206073W